Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence | Zendy

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Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence

Author(s) -

Aliya R. Webermann,

Christopher M. Murphy

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

violence against women

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.807

H-Index - 96

eISSN - 1552-8448

pISSN - 1077-8012

DOI - 10.1177/1077801218766628

Subject(s) - derealization , depersonalization , neglect , dissociative , child abuse , psychology , poison control , domestic violence , sexual abuse , psychological abuse , suicide prevention , injury prevention , physical abuse , victimology , feeling , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , social psychology , emotional exhaustion , burnout

The present study assesses childhood abuse/neglect as a predictor of dissociative intimate partner violence (IPV) among 118 partner-abusive men. One third (36%) endorsed dissociative IPV, most commonly losing control (18%), surroundings seeming unreal (16%), feeling someone other than oneself is aggressing (16%), and seeing oneself from a distance aggressing (10%). Childhood physical abuse/neglect predicted IPV-specific derealization/depersonalization, aggressive self-states, and flashbacks to past violence. Childhood emotional abuse/neglect predicted derealization/depersonalization, blackouts, and flashbacks. Childhood sexual abuse uniquely predicted amnesia. Other potential traumas did not predict dissociative IPV, suggesting dissociative IPV is influenced by trauma-based emotion dysregulation wherein childhood abuse/neglect survivors disconnect from their abusive behavior.

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